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, computer animation and

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Background

Lindsay spent three years working at Lucasfilm and

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on '' Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace'' (1999) and ''

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'' (2000). He also played Rum Sleg in The Phantom Menace, for which action figures are available. He has taught at the Academy of Art and at the

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Multimedia Studies Programs. He has written for ''3D Magazine'', ''

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'' and ''Post''. He was a regular guest on the US

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channel

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, and has appeared as a guest on G4techTV Canada's television show ''The Lab with Leo Laporte''. Currently, he is Head of Operations a
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Podcasting

Lindsay produced the internet show '' MacBreak'', which in 2006 made episodes available online in

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, a notably high resolution at the time. He also regularly participates in ''

MacBreak Weekly ''MacBreak'' was an internet television show hosted by Leo Laporte, Kendra Arimoto, Alex Lindsay, iJustine and Emery Wells from TWiT.tv and the Pixel Corps. The podcast was dedicated to Apple's Macintosh computers and other Apple products such ...

'', a weekly talk show/netcast on the

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network, and hosts the Virtual Final Cut Pro X Users Group dedicated to working with

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software. Currently, he produces the daily

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Office Hours
which is a panel discussion about media production technology.

References

External links

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Office Hours Website
A global conversation where no one’s left out
The home of the TWiT network
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